Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer to this one is more forward speed which means more power or a cleaner model . |
| 2 | An ‘ open ’ question produces a reply which leaves more room for uncertainty . |
| 3 | Also , this method can achieve the same accuracy by using a best-few search which explores more alternatives during portions of the utterances where credibility is low . ’ |
| 4 | This is a tribute to my sister , Clare , who lived and breathed horses , and who later died on the horse she loved more than anything . |
| 5 | And it 's easier in the short term not to have In the long term you get more problems . |
| 6 | With each interview you gain more experience and expertise . |
| 7 | But then the good old American public elected Nixon so here you had Al Capone in the White House and these same political scientists wrote books saying hey hang on , when we said more power to the president we meant more power for our kind of president , you know , Jack , you know , and L B J and the boys , not this Nixon , Tricky Dicky character . |
| 8 | This gerbil is strictly nocturnal in contrast to some of the more common rodents , and as a result it suffers more predation by the owls than do the others . |
| 9 | As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier . |
| 10 | Over the piece it shows more beauty and riches than reality can master . |
| 11 | What they do is to introduce a new element into the concept of responsibility which involves more than free will and reason ; now a third party is present and is an active participant in the language game in which responsibility has a role . |
| 12 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 13 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
| 14 | Round peas contain much more starch than the wrinkled variety which contain more sugar . |
| 15 | The modern female nude is regarded as an honest and intimate genre which reveals more of the artist 's own personality than any other subject . |
| 16 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 17 | David hardly paints for sale any more — it 's opera , camera , fax and camcord , which hardly helps me pay my rent , and Frank Stella , whose work I admire more than anyone 's , makes these enormous aluminium , what I call floor reliefs , that are very hard to sell . |
| 18 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 19 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 20 | The type which has more protein to lipid is called a high density lipoprotein or HDL . |
| 21 | But if we are free citizens ’ — he paused on the word , feeling it alien but unable to think of another — ‘ if we are not slaves , we must have liberty to say ‘ No , we have no dispute with France — we have business here at home which matters more than anything else on earth — we will not learn to play with swords , or blow out brains with bullets . ’ |
| 22 | And as recently announced ( with applause from Kenneth Baker , the minister for information technology ) , GEC has acquired the rights to build the Hitachi Process Robot , a machine which bears more than a strong resemblance to a robot made by the Swedish company ASEA . |
| 23 | To lend naive party cheer , the young American DJ whacks up the dry ice machine which spurts more of its obnoxious fumes into the heart of the room . |
| 24 | Each region has a Regional Market Testing Co-ordinator who has more detailed information . |
| 25 | A consultant who treated more patients would shorten the queue and attract more patients without attracting more resources — more anxiety and no reward or means to do the job . |
| 26 | In the jury were such well-known ‘ independent ’ commentators as Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE , a Regional Health Authority Chairman I had just replaced , a nurses ' negotiator , a consultant who wanted more money for his hospital and an ancillary health worker . |
| 27 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 28 | In these other bodies of law we see more influence of foreign law than elsewhere in our legal system . |
| 29 | By marriage they inherited more land and a mansion on the banks of the River Ayr at Stair , from which they took their title . |
| 30 | Despite this diligence in the diocese he had more leisure than at Durham and much more leisure than later . |